Creative commercial production studio Lord Danger–under the aegis of EP/founder Josh Shadid–has added Lena Kazer as director of business development. At her new roost, Kazer spearheads sales strategy, conceives and implements marketing campaigns, and facilitates partnership engagement. Kazer earlier repped a roster of production companies, editorial and design studios, and post houses in the Midwest for three years….
James Murray has been promoted to head of the voice department at Abrams Artists Agency. A 10-year-plus veteran of the company, Murray has extensive experience in all areas of voiceover including commercial, animation–both features and television–video games, narration, promos, and audio books. Under Murray’s leadership, clients have been cast as voices in such noted feature films as Toy Story 4, Abominable and Rango, multiple animated television shows for Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, Cartoon Network and Netflix, as well as national television commercials for such brands as Sprint, Ross for Less, Capital One, Bank of America, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Murray began his career in the New York office of the agency as an assistant and worked his way up to agent. He relocated to the Los Angeles office in 2014 where he continued to develop a strong roster of clients leading to this promotion. Additionally, Brittney Weiskopf has joined Abrams Artists Agency from the CESD Agency where she spent three years. Prior to that she worked as a voice agent at the Sutton, Barth Vennari Agency in Los Angeles….
